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ART RECIPES

Ingredients

Directions

Level: Beginner

  • Plaster

  • Acrylic paint

  • Ink

  • Water

1 - In a small jar mix the acrylic paint with water until it’s as thick as milk. Set it aside. 

 

2 - Taking the one of the containers that you will be casting in, add 2 parts plaster to 1 part water. Use your hands (preferably gloved) mix the plaster thoroughly, until there are no clumps of dry plaster.

 

3 - Now that the plaster is mixed start pouring in the paint slowly. As you pour it in you’ll notice it sitting on the surface. Using a spoon or stick start mixing the colour, pushing it to the sides until it has a marbled appearance. At this point you can also add in the touche or ink. 

 

4 - Once the colours have been mixed tap the sides to remove all the air bubble. 

 

5- Leave the piece to dry (about 20-30 mins or until it has cooled). Remove the piece once it has dried. 

 

6- Repeat steps 1-5

 

7- Take both pieces and stack them top-to-top
 

"Hazy Memory Pool"
by Johanne Skovbo Lasgaard.

Hazy Memory Pool, 2015, Plaster, acrylic paint and ink 

Total Time: 

40 min
Prep: 10 min |  Cook: 30 min

About the artists

Johanne Skovbo Lasgaards (1985) based in East Jutland. MFA The Royal Danish Academy of Art in 2013. 


Her work shapes like a study with the overall method of dissolving different materials, such as to, in the process, tune them into a new joint resonance.
In the context of exhibitions, her work is installed as scenographic erections of elements, which work together as vibrating compositions. Each element is a compact potential. She can add more to the elements, they can be dissolved and they can become parts of new installations. Silk and cotton, bamboo and metal pipes make banner-like formations. Items in plaster and concrete and paper are repeated into dissolution and such takes on new shapes. 

The material pose some grounding conditions which means that a part of the process arise outside of your self. The liquid is spacious and dries up flat. A row of particles works together, to form a solid shape or a flat form.

 
Johanne Skovbo Lasgaard is interested in the dissolving and uniting of the material, which in some parts of Alchemy is seen as a working through of the human process of recognition. Different materials are used for a course of relief. An investigation of what happens with the materials when they are put together, and what happens with you, when you stand with the material – as a medium for the body - investigating a potential recognition.

Plaster casts of her work bucket repeats in earlier works and has become a picture of the process that the body registers and which, in different guises, are lead on into the new work. Parts of old casted figures; a certain material; a title. The repetition – or here: the working bucket – is like a basic condition that stabilizes the work.

 

In the repetition, a displacement arises. Especially Johanne Skovbo Lasgaard is interested in the displacement of data, which also happens in memory from what one experience to what one actually remembers. In that sense her work can also be understood as a study of different modes of translation processes. From the body’s movement over the material language and to the written word, moving from these statements to the possibilities of understanding held by the viewer. 

 

www.johanneskovbolasgaard.com

Tools

  • Basket

  • Plastic gloves

  • Spoon

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